JUST PRESS THE START BUTTON IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC….

the song is “anchors aweigh,” the u.s. navy song.

****NEW YORK CITY SHOWCASE (DESIGNER LINE OF CLOTHING)….see it all at SWELL

****LATE BREAKING NEWS (updated daily)…. it is our blog which changes every day. this time you can click on TODAY but in the future, you can go to it directly each day at http://epistle.blogs.com/.

****TWO WARS ARE BETTER THAN ONE…. some people die, some people make profits with u.s. army contracts. WAR

****US NAVY SAYS NEW YORK CITY COULD HAVE A DEVASTATING HURRICAINE ONE OF THESE DAYS….the sailors have done some research and say that because we are at sea level, it would be a real mess to evacuate eight million people. this month, there has been more rain in the big apple than ever before. let me tell you how it affected the folks.

****ARE THE WAR PROTESTS FINALLY STARTING IN NEW YORK CITY? so far most people have paid little attention to our two overseas wars that are just killing machines for the military. take a look at this photo. it surely does bring it out when it represents the service people killed in action.

****COULD THERE BE A ROMANTIC SUBWAY?....you bet there is and it is actually called the “L” line. it goes from manhattan to brooklyn and it is filled with lovers but hopefully they won’t do the “muffky fuffky” on the train.

****THE STRANGE WORLD OF THE FULTON FISH MARKET….the city fathers decided to move it to the bronx. the city forgot to ask the fish merchants how they felt about it. certainly something is fishy here.

****SPEAK NEW YAWK (people will wonder at your sophistication)….“nebbish” a real loser.

****OLD TIME RADIO (shows you might be too young to remember)….this time it is "duffy’s tavern." THE PAST

****THE SNEAKY CAMERA (the hidden camera)….a growing collection of new yorkers are unaware that they are being watched by a certain taxi driver. new ones are added from time to time. take a peep at SNEAKY

****YENTA YACK FROM THE BACK OF THE HACK (what they are talking about in the yellow mobile conveyance lounge)….the guy who spent $240,000 in one night at a strip joint called “scores.”

****THE EARL THEATER (it used to be on 161st street in the bronx. now it is here and this month's feature is "park avenue" which shows you how you are so poor because you don't live on this avenue with the rich people. PARK

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**AND THAT NEAT MOVIE HOUSE ALWAYS SHOWED A DOUBLE FEATURE AND HERE WE ARE WITH A SECOND FLICK. this is a wonderful trip around new york city in the famous yellow mobile conveyance lounge. HONK HONK

****TAKE A HIKE (discovering where the famous and infamous spots are) ….a portion of 103rd street between broadway and west end avenue will soon be renamed after humphrey bogart who lived on the block for 20 years at number 245.

****CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE BIZARRE (hard to believe)....two new york city cops were charged with getting out of their car and making a pee on the street. the incident was captured by a security camera.

****JASON BLAIR AWARD (for the worst journalism during the previous week)….to bill keller the editor of the new york times who says, he didn’t know that his reporter judith miller, the lady who went to the slammer, was full of crap.

****THE MOST WANTED TOUR IN THE BIG APPLE…. here are some happy visitors. you too can have a tour by going to TOUR INFO

**to listen to what other happy tourists had to say about the tour, just go AUDIO

**to see some additional happy tourists perform in short video productions go VIDEO

**to hear broadcast spots about some of the places where folks are taken to, listen to these commercials that were created for a "visit new york city promotion" at SPOTS

****CELEBRITY SIGHTING (media adulation)….do you remember “the drifters?” STAR

****JOKE DU JOUR (told to me by the passengers)….this week the punch line is “lord bless this food” and you can hear it at AUDIO

****TO HEAR A RECENT GABBY CABBY BROADCAST, CLICK HERE. LISTEN

****TO SEE GABBY CABBY TV PRESENTATIONS, CLICK HERE. SEE

****LISTEN TO THE LATEST VERSION OF "NEW YORK, NEW YORK….it is written and sung by jack servello LISTEN

****NEW YORK CITY SHOWCASE (DESIGNER LINE OF CLOTHING)….see it all at SWELL